Article: Wild Need To Be Wary of Golden Knights' Power Play in Round 1

[Thomas Williams]

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[M_Nels]

Wild need to be wary of anyone's power play.

[Scalptrash]

The power play?? How about the whole team, all the time? I hope I'm wrong, but Vegas in 5.

Billy did everything he was asked to do by Leipold, just make the playoffs (for some extra dough).

[Pewterschmidt]

I look forward to this series settling the debate re: the importance of size in the playoffs (vs regular season).  Going to be watching Spurge, Rossi and Zuccy closely.  How effective are they during a playoff series?

[RedLake]

43 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

I look forward to this series settling the debate re: the importance of size in the playoffs (vs regular season).  Going to be watching Spurge, Rossi and Zuccy closely.  How effective are they during a playoff series?

Rossi and Zucc=Rag Dolled. They will do buttonhooks all series leading to Vegas odd man rushes.

[MacGyver]

Wild win in 7! 

[M_Nels]

1 hour ago, Pewterschmidt said:

Going to be watching Spurge, Rossi and Zuccy closely.  How effective are they during a playoff series?

Rossi is going to be the biggest (ha) one to keep an eye on with potential contract negotiations on the line. Sounds like he's been playing through something but if he can have a good showing in the playoffs Guerin might get a little sweeter on his contract.

I'm less worried about Zucc and even less about Spurgeon (as long as they stay healthy). Zucc's biggest thing is trying to force plays when they're not there, he can make great passes with great vision and then other times he forces it to a guy, Kaprizov mostly, that's covered leading to turnovers and rushes back the other way.

[Pewterschmidt]

Just now, M_Nels said:

even less about Spurgeon

I'll disagree here.  Spurgzy was manhandled badly the last time we were in the playoffs.

[M_Nels]

3 minutes ago, Pewterschmidt said:

I'll disagree here.  Spurgzy was manhandled badly the last time we were in the playoffs.

I didn't think he got manhandled too bad by Dallas, unless I'm remembering through rose colored glasses. Looked up stats and he was a -6 for the series so he may have but out of the 3 listed he's the least worrisome to me.

[SkolWild73]

Game 1 is 9pm CT Sunday and Game 2 doesn’t start until 10pm CT on Tuesday.  Good thing I have some sick time for work saved up

[MNCountryLife]

Wild need to stay out of the box.  Keep their sticks down and nothing stupid.  Vegas will welcome a special teams match up.  

[M_Nels]

10 minutes ago, MNCountryLife said:

Wild need to stay out of the box.  Keep their sticks down and nothing stupid.  Vegas will welcome a special teams match up.  

No more painful flashbacks to the Dallas series please...

[Imyourhuckleberry]

Since March 1st, the Wild have had a top 10 power play and above average PK, and I'm using March due to a shift in personnel being used around March 1st.

Vegas has had one of the worst penalty kill percentages since March 1st.

Vegas needs to be wary of the Wild Power Play!

[RedLake]

21 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

Since March 1st, the Wild have had a top 10 power play and above average PK, and I'm using March due to a shift in personnel being used around March 1st.

Vegas has had one of the worst penalty kill percentages since March 1st.

Vegas needs to be wary of the Wild Power Play!

Wilds power play will be elite with Buuim's skills.

[Citizen Strife]

I was saying BOO-IUM

LFG!

[OldDutchChip]

wild in 6! stone is injured (likely by our mvp). fleury does not play a game. kap scores 6 goals in the series. rossi scores 4 but is still traded in the off season. and trenin mvp of the series!

[SkolWild73]

Sounds like Zeev practices with the pp1 yesterday. 
 

Here is the article.

https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-wild/zeev-buium-rumors-nhl-playoffs-debut/

[Willy the poor boy]

Game 1 - 9PM start time

Game 2 - 10PM start time

Game 3 - 8PM start time

Game 4 - 3PM start time.

Well, I'll be able to watch 1 whole game live anyway...

[SkolWild73]

2 hours ago, Willy the poor boy said:

Game 1 - 9PM start time

Game 2 - 10PM start time

Game 3 - 8PM start time

Game 4 - 3PM start time.

Well, I'll be able to watch 1 whole game live anyway...

Looks like I will be watching one or two periods of the games followed by an early breakfast watch of the end of the games.  

[Willy the poor boy]

5 hours ago, RedLake said:

Wilds power play will be elite with Buuim's skills.

Hard to believe Zeev, in his first full practice, is practicing with PP1. Not sure why they haven't tried Merrill there yet. Any guesses Red?

[Fezig]

The NHL and broadcaster's sure don't think much about this series. 9p start Sunday and 10p start on Tuesday. MN TV ratings don't matter, I guess.

[Sam]

20 hours ago, Citizen Strife said:

I was saying BOO-IUM

LFG!

Like BOO-YUM, right? Yea me too. I think that’s correct. 

[Sam]

15 hours ago, SkolWild73 said:

Looks like I will be watching one or two periods of the games followed by an early breakfast watch of the end of the games.  

C’mon ya old farts. 

[SkolWild73]

40 minutes ago, Sam said:

C’mon ya old farts. 

Or older and wiser so as to not piss off the wife by not going to bed with her.  She is fine if I get up early to watch, but not as accepting staying up late to watch hockey. I can record and rewatch the game, but not a fan of an upset/cutting off wife.  Will reserve that for later rounds….

[RedLake]

16 hours ago, Willy the poor boy said:

Hard to believe Zeev, in his first full practice, is practicing with PP1. Not sure why they haven't tried Merrill there yet. Any guesses Red?

Well Merril has high hockey IQ, the quickest hands and feet on the team, insane lateral movement, and elite play making abilities! Why is a 19 year old kid gonna be quarter backing PP1 in the NHL playoffs?